The transition of flesh from the state of grace to mortal the fall of our consciousness and the denial of our Nature happens through collective and individual behavior over a long period of time. You can birth and uncorrupted soul into this world, but quickly one's nature is denied by the world they live in. Most of us are born into a wrong creation, so we have a wrong idea of who we are, of what life is. Our judgments of Self, our beliefs and feelings around the nature of life, act out upon our lives. We take a beautiful, graceful dive into a pool noticing too late that where we imagined the cool receptive water, was instead cement. So we cannot rely on exterior images or circumstances but only upon the inner Self for direction.